Laid-off employees at Twitter's Africa headquarters are accusing Twitter of "deliberately and recklessly flouting the laws of Ghana" and trying to "silence and intimidate" them after they were fired.

Preliminary election results released by Equatorial Guinea's government on Monday showed the ruling party winning over 99% of votes counted so far in presidential, legislative, and municipal elections held on Sunday.

Delegates from nearly 200 counties at the COP27 climate summit have agreed to set up a "loss and damage" fund meant to help vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters, in a landmark deal early Sunday morning in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Joseph Singiringabo has lost almost everything and everyone he held dear to Ebola. In a few short weeks, the 78-year-old lost his wife, his son, and a newborn granddaughter to the disease.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Thursday it was committing $7 billion to Africa over the next four years, as Bill Gates warned that the Ukraine crisis was reducing the amount of aid flowing to the continent.

The crowd was loving what Bhekumuzi Bhebhe had to say, cheering loudly as he yelled "don't gas Africa!" into the megaphone.

Lagos, Nigeria's commercial center, has a storage problem. At the West African trade hub's shipping terminals, projected demand for container space far outstrips capacity. To narrow the gap, the state has embarked on one of the region's most ambitious infrastructure projects, Lekki Deep Sea Port.

A Zambian student, jailed in Russia was killed during a battle in Ukraine, Zambia's foreign ministry said Monday.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has slammed Western countries over what he calls a "reprehensible double standard" in their response to the energy crisis brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A university in Uganda has withdrawn a requirement for female nursing and midwifery students to take a pregnancy test before sitting their exams, after facing a backlash.

Two TikTok comedians have been publicly whipped in Nigeria for making a video that a court in the northern Kano State ruled had defamed the state Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, according to a judicial spokesperson.

For some political detainees in Egypt, a second nationality can be a matter of life or death, especially when pressure from Western governments becomes the last hope for possible freedom.

"Wakanda Forever," the sequel to "Black Panther," Marvel Studios' award-winning $1.3 billion grossing movie, had its African premiere in Nigeria -- the first time Marvel has held an African premiere there.

A Pakistani journalist shot dead by police in Kenya last month was the victim of a "targeted killing," a senior member of Pakistan's government said on Tuesday, without offering any evidence to support his claim.

A Nigerian social media influencer who flaunted a lavish lifestyle of private jets and luxury cars has been sentenced to 11 years in prison over charges related to a multimillion dollar scam that targeted companies in the United States and overseas.

A rescue operation was underway Sunday after a commercial flight operated by Precision Air crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania, according to the airline.

As global leaders converge in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the UN's annual climate summit, researchers, advocates and the United Nations itself are warning the world is still wildly off-track on its goal to halt global warming and prevent the worst consequences of the climate crisis.

Egypt is facing a barrage of criticism over what rights groups say is a crackdown on protests and activists, as it prepares to host the COP27 climate summit starting Sunday.

Hundreds of elephants, wildebeests, and zebras have died across Kenya amid the nation's longest drought in decades.

A rightwing French lawmaker has caused uproar by shouting "Go back to Africa" during a Black lawmaker's comments at a parliamentary session broadcast to the public on Thursday.